Mikel Arteta confirms a busy Arsenal transfer window

Mikel Arteta has plans for the Arsenal transfer window in place.

Arteta confirmed that there will be a lot of departures and a few incoming targets in the January transfer window.

‘Well, we have a large squad. We knew that,’ said Arteta in the Metro.

‘A lot of things that should have happened in the summer we could not accomplish them for different reasons. There are a lot of players that are going to go on loan. They are going to leave.

‘That’s the priority at the moment because we cannot sustain the numbers that we have in certain positions. We are looking to do that. And then we will see if we have the right opportunities in the positions that we need some more help. We are working with the club to try to address them.’

‘Obviously, financially, it’s not only us, it’s every club in the Premier League that have been in hit with big numbers,’ Arteta continued.

‘We know that this is not going to change in the last year or so. That we are gonna have to add somehow if we’re going to improve the team in different ways financially with some support.

‘We will decide whether this is with loans or buying players in relation to the opportunities we will have in the market.’

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